Axon MkII velocity range

Started by sunbambino, May 20, 2014, 10:21:45 PM

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sunbambino

I'm using the Axon AX100 mkII in preference to the Tripleplay for live but having problems getting the unit to produce a proper range of velocity when triggering instruments in Logic 9/X. Anyone else had this issue? Know the magic fix?

And is there an Axon forum anywheres still alive? ???


arkieboy

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Hi sunbambino


Tuning velocity sensitivity is not especially easy, but the rewards are good tracking with only a little mistriggering.  I found the trick was to tune the trigger level and note off limit for particular types of sounds - if the sound you want to play has a wide velocity range and the notes get a lot louder with increased velocity, you're not using a damper/hold pedal and you want to send a wide velocity range from your Axon, then low-velocity ghost notes can be tolerable so you want a low trigger level (in global) and low offset and high sensitivity in the instrument patch.  Conversely if your sound has little or no volume velocity sensitivity, or you want the sound to be consistently loud, then all of the ghost notes will come out at the same level as the real notes so you want a higher trigger level to avoid mist riggers.


Of course some sounds are velocity sensitive but have very little variation in volume between low and high velocity notes - usually where the quality of the sound changes.  These you should treat as you would the second case


(these are not magic numbers - they won't work on your system but they help explain)


So for a velocity sensitive sound you might have
global: trigger level about 70
patch: offset 10
patch: sensitivity 90



and a velocity insensitive sound you might have
global: trigger level about 40
patch: offset doesn't matter, set to taste if the selected patch responds to velocity
patch: sensitivity doesn't matter, as above


Also the velocity sensitivity of the patch in the synth module matters - if there is none then you won't get any by fiddling with the Axon, but if it has velocity sensitivity you can tame it using the offset and sensitivity


Hope this makes sense


Steve

Main rig: Barden Hexacaster and Brian Moore i2.13 controllers
Boss SY1000/Boss GKC-AD/Boss GM-800/Laney LFR112

Other relevant gear: Line 6 Helix LT, Roland GR-33, Axon AX100 MkII
Oberheim Matrix 6R, Supernova IIR, EMu E5000, Apple Mainstage, Apple Logic, MOTU M4

sunbambino

A lot to explore here, cannot thank U enough for yr time n trouble taken, sounds like U really know this unit inside out and it's kl to have yr guidance!!!